Category: News

Mini-Mag is a German diskette magazine. In this edition: Editorial, letters from readers, marketplace and the charts. Interview with Lothar. Articles: Montezuma’s Revenge, Ring von Copla, Crossfire!, DoReCo #37, Turbo Chameleon 64, DirMaster v6.2 and a puzzle. Download: minimag06.zipWebsite: http://tinyurl.com/7ymcea8

QCodeEdit is a text editing framework for the Amiga. The features are: Excellent speed. Low memory usage. High-lighting, brace matching, auto-indenting and code folding. Unlimited undo/redo, dynamic line wrapping and a easy to use search function. Download: qcodeedit.lhaSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

Mastertronic Chronicles is a blog of witchfinder dedicated to the Mastertronic games for the Commodore 64. The most recent reviews are: Knight-Tyme (1988), Frenesis (1987), Dragonskulle (1987), Barry McGuigan World Championship Boxing (1989), Beat It (1987), Pulsoids (1988) and the Mastertronic catalogue from 1986. Website: http://retrounlim.com/mastertronic/

Chris Osborn is working on a system that can replace the 1541 disk drive. He uses a Raspberry Pi computer to communicate with the serial IEC bus of the Commodore 64. Chris had to modified the Linux kernel on the Raspberry Pi so it can handle the interrupts when the IEC bus was signalling. At the moment the system is…

– Disable Z3 Cirrus Logic RTG board if 24-bit address space. – Hard reset and CL board enabled crashed. – Added Chipset/RTG screen toggle input event (“Toggle chipset/RTG screen”). Only works when RTG mode is active, supports both Cirrus Logic emulation and uaegfx. NOTE: temporarily also hardwired to END + F9. – VGA planar modes (<=16 colors) work now. –…

Latest releases over at CSDb are as follows: Funtempo, For Leon 15, Blackchar, Minimalmo, Cyber Core – Game Art ’94, Fast Food Preview, Pompeii, VSP Lab 1.0, Lauter, The House of Mr Chuff, Two Reds For One Blues, Night Walk, Natura Morta, Outtakes, Shrill, Future Comets, Never Trust a c64, Let Roses Speak, N0rdl1cht 2013, Mind Collapse, Hello James!, Call of…

Arthur Jordison has released a new version of CBM prg Studio. Changes in this version: The debugger has new keyboard shortcuts. The character editor can now copy groups of characters and scroll the scratchpad. In BASIC you have now batch mode, constants definitions in code (hex) and the auto line numbering is improved. Website: http://www.ajordison.co.ukSource: http://www.richardlagendijk.nl

Thomas Wenzel released an update of his music player for the Amiga. AmigaAMP is a GUI based MPEG audio. It can also play AIFF, WAV and FLAC files. Changes in this version: New system for wsz skins. The AppIcon position is now correct. UTF8 conversion in FLAC meta-data. Automatically sorting of files alphabetically when loading directories. New skin and icon…

TAWS (The Amiga Workbench Simulation) is a JavaScript simulation of the Amiga-Workbench 1.x – 3.x for IE, Firefox, Opera and WebKit-Browsers. With TAWS you can work with the Amiga Workbench inside your favourite web browser. Changes in this version: Support for Internet Explorer 10. Russian texts are now available. The disk drive can be disabled. Improvements for the preferences and…

David Thiel made music for Winter Games, Championship Wrestling and Rock n’ Bolt. He worked with the ColecoVision, Adam, Atari 400/800 and the C64. He developed a sound system (DDTSS) for the C64 that supports six channels. This system combined the 3 voices and 3 virtual channels for sound effects. You can read the complete interview on the C64.com web…